Same Time, Next Year

Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play of the same name, this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. They have an affair, which they continue for the next 25 years, ...more

In 1978, such American movies as The Deer Hunter and Coming Home began to address the Vietnam War, and, in its own small way, Same Time, Next Year tries to put its finger on that pulse as well. The movie follows a single adulterous relationship over almost three decades; with each passing year, there is corresponding social commentary. At times, the two lovers (Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn) make hairpin turns in their lives which serve as poignant signposts for America's changing political ...more